The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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